Just smiling goes a long way towardmaking you feel better about life.And when you feel better about life, your life is better.- Art Linkletter

A good question is never answered.It is not a bolt to be tightened into placebut a seed to be planted and to bear more seedtoward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.- John Ciardi

March on. Do not tarry. To go forwardis to move toward perfection.March on, and fear not the thorns,or the sharp stones on life's path.- Khalil Gibran

Know first that you have absolutely no power to change the world,and then address all your energies and intent toward improving it.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Honor your past, and all the consequences of that past.Receive insight into relieving the paincaused by past experiences and current attitudes toward life.Observe life as it currently appears,and then train yourself to observe lifefrom other perspectives that support a higher quality of living.Re-consider your priorities.Chart your Course.Set Sail with Courage.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,and tends to produce ferocity towardthose who are not regarded as members of the herd.- Bertrand Russell

Choose to adopt the attitude toward failure that sports teams do.In each game, one team succeeds and one fails.Then the next week they both get out and play again.Life is also a game - with some successes and some failures.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.The ability to direct individual accomplishmentstoward organizational objectives.It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.- Andrew Carnegie

All successful people men and women are big dreamers.They imagine what their future could be,ideal in every respect,and then they work every day towardtheir distant vision,that goal or purpose.- Brian Tracy

USE this time of fresh beginnings.Use it as an impetus, the force or energy toward change.Become stronger, a better leader, more focused in your thoughts.Exert more influence over your dreamsby bringing them closer to your thoughts, every day.- Mary Anne Radmacher

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanksfor everything that happens to you,knowing that every step forward is a step towardachieving something bigger and better than your current situation.- Brian Tracy

Happiness comes when I remember that others' opinions of meare just their opinions - nothing more.I find happiness in moving toward my goalsregardless of the applause or the jeers of others.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I CHOOSE with Open Mind and Open Heart -I renounce all assumptions and expectations,and I declare that I will thoughtfully consider all possibilities.I will CHOOSE with courage, awareness,consciousness, and compassion toward all.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Before you can forgive others,you must be a person whose forgiveness matters.Before you can have gratitude for your life,you must believe that your life has value.Before your choices have value,you must feel that you yourself have value.Before you can dream a great dream for your future,you have to believe that your future matters.Before you can build positive habits of resolve and commitment,before you can begin to live into the Japanese proverb,"Fall seven times, stand up eight,"you must believe that your life matters.Before you can celebrate your life, you must Honor it.And, before you can feel unity with,and Honor toward, Spirit and all creation,you must Honor yourself to feel worthy of that unity.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I choose to be caring, compassionate and kind toward all people,and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,petty complaints, and idle chatter.About those, I just don't care.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Laugh at yourself and at life.Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity,but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain,cure your depression, and help you to put in perspectivethat seemingly terrible defeat and worrywith laughter at your predicaments,thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solutionthat is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.- Og Mandino

The first step toward success is taken when you refuseto be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.- Mark Caine

Design is directed toward human beings.To design is to solve human problems by identifyingthem and executing the best solution.- Ivan Chermayeff

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trendtoward processed food and fast food.- Andrew Weil

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion,than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.- Andre Gide

Living Into the Great Paradox,I strive toward my vision,while accepting gratefully whatever life serves up.I work to bring about my vision of the future,which is based on my value system of what is right,just, noble, compassionate, generous, humane, peaceful, and loving.Simultaneously, I accept that my visionis based on only my opinions and prejudices,and I honor all points of view and value systems,no matter how different from my own.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk.It is walking toward me, without hurrying.- Jean Cocteau

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement;improve your attitude toward your family.- Bo Bennett

Anger is something that each one of us has experienced -some of us only occasionally, some almost daily.Can we eliminate all anger? Probably not.We will always have expectations,and those expectations will often be unmet.Disappointment is the principle cause of anger.When we are disappointed, we look for someone to blame.Declaring someone to be at fault is the nature of anger.Anger is always directed at someone -possibly toward God or the non-specific "they,"but at some animate entity.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Anger and Danger are intimately intertwined.An angry person is a dangerous person,whether that person crosses our pathor whether the angry person is ourself.To complete the anger/danger cycle,whenever we feel threatened -when we believe we are in danger -we tend to exhibit anger as well as fear.We look for someone to blame for the dangerous situation,and direct our anger toward them.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everythingsave our modes of thinkingand we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.- Albert Einstein

Be what you are.This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.- Julius Charles Hare

The forces that are driving mankind toward unity andpeace are deep-seated and powerful.They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.- Arthur Henderson

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations.Cultivate peace and harmony with all.- George Washington

A knowledgeable and courageous U.S.president could help enormously in leading the world'snations toward saving the climate.- Donella Meadows

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known towardwhat is arcane and concealed.- Khalil Gibran